[R-390] Wives and Boatanchors

[Bill Hawkins]

Cecil,

Actually, its a lot like drinking. One radio acquired makes you feel good.
The next one makes you feel better, and there's no pesky hangover.

Depressed? Had a bad day? Buy another radio, examine the beauty of it
and cast it upon the pile of things to fix someday. There's a feeling
of accomplishment that comes from buying a radio. If you're a fierce
competitor, there's a feeling of accomplishment from stealing another
radio. There's a feeling of accomplishment from fixing a radio, but
too often it is preceded by frustration that nothing you have done
will make it work.

And so, bad day by bad day, the pile grows. If one radio is good, an
estate must be ecstatic.

Then, when you thought the good times would never end, you discover that
there really are limits to growth. It is time for the 4 step program:

1. Realize that there is a higher power.
2. Realize that your rational brain is no match for it.
3. Discover that there is joy in selling radios.
4. When they are all gone, re-discover the joy of buying radios.

Repeat 1 through 4 as often as necessary, for as long as there is a market
in old radios. What Death doesn't accomplish by killing us off, BPL will.

Happy collecting and recycling,
Bill Hawkins